Maybe You Shouldn't be Going to Gay Night Clubs.
It came as no surprise to me when Omar Mateen walked into Pulse nightclub and opened fire, killing 49 people and injuring dozens more.
I think we all know what the real message is here. You shouldn't be going to gay nightclubs.
They are teeming with drunk, sex-craved twenty-somethings who listen to loud music and love to party all night long.
Wait. Hold on. Aren't all nightclubs like that? If you really want to stay safe, you shouldn't be going to any nightclubs.
Or movie theaters, for that matter.
Movie theatres, where the floors are sticky, it's pitch black, and who knows what kind of monster might be sitting in that back row!
So it also came as no surprise that on July 20, 2012, James Holmes, wearing a costume and carrying a 12 gauge shotgun, semi-automatic rifle, and a handgun, murdered 20 people at close range and wounded 70 others. The movie theatre industry was already on its last legs, and this act really closed the curtain. I haven't gone since, and don't plan to be going any time in the near future.
Churches are definitely out, too. So not safe! Remember when 21 year old Dylann Roof killed 9 people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina?
People go to church to be close to God, but not that close. People go to church to pray, not to pray for their lives. No thank you.
And don't even think of sending your kids to school. As of October 2015, there were at least 188 school shootings since 2013, which is an average of nearly one a week.
In the first 6 months of 2016, there have been at least 8 school shootings so far.
In fact, there was a fatal shooting outside a school in Chicago just now, while I was writing this post.
Which means the odds of your child being shot to death in a place of learning are pretty freakin' good.
None of these shootings carries much shock value anymore, each one is just the latest in a constant stream of bloodshed flowing out of our daily news and into our lives, again and again and again and again.
So if you want your offspring to survive, don't send them to university, don't send them to high school. Are you kidding? Not even kindergarten!!
No, not even kindergarten.
The Sandy Hook Elementary shooting did actually come as a surprise to me, just from the sheer horror of it. You'd think the one place that might have been spared of mass murder is elementary school. It is the place where we send our youngest members of society, our babies, to grow and develop into loving responsible human beings.
When Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary and shot 20 small children that day, he stole more than those 27 lives and the lives of their families and loved ones. He stole a little innocence from all of us.
So yeah, add kindergarten to the list. Looks like my little one won't be going to school. Ever.
When tragedies like these occur, whether in schools, or theaters, or gay nightclubs, we all become a little more scared and a little more numb. We start avoiding places and staying home with only our closest family members and our devices. Our phones and computers and televisions will be our only link to the big, bad, outside world, which is not as frightening when viewed through a screen.
You may hear our leaders or our elders telling us not to be afraid, to carry on, or to continue shopping, as Bush suggested after 911. People will tell me that I "just gotta live my life" and hope nothing bad happens. Well, that's not enough for me anymore.
I am nostalgic for my childhood, where we didn't even lock our doors when we went out. Now, I barely even leave the house, and when I am home, you can be sure my doors are locked. I grew up in a world where going out was our only way to socialize. Oh! How fun it was to be out at a club dancing the night away, or watching the latest blockbuster on the big screen with your whole family. Well, those days are long gone.
When I became a mom, my social life came to a complete stop. I was nesting with my baby and husband, and it was a welcomed end to going out to clubs, movie theaters, and other social gatherings. With reports of shootings coming in all the time and from everywhere, its was an easy choice to make. If fear is the intended result of these terrorists, then they've completed their mission. I am afraid. I don't want to leave my comfort zone. I won't put my child in harm's way.
I am not a fearful person, but I'm not stupid either. Our society has degenerated to the point where madness roams free in the streets. People are over-medicated and under-stimulated and it's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Social services are lacking, and the institutions that do exist, like hospitals, prisons and schools, only seem to exacerbate the problem, churning out more violence and hatred with every passing day. Terrorism. Bullies. Prescription Drugs. Guns.
I don't know why mass shootings are growing more frequent and more deadly year after year. All I do know is that there's something fundamentally wrong with this country, and nothing is being done to fix it, or even address the reality of what's happening here. Our nation has become a terrifying place to live, and no one has any answers.
So for me, the only obvious solution I can think of is to stay home with my doors locked and my phone on. My daughter's future looks lonely, but safe. I will try my best to homeschool her, entertain her at home, and avoid public events. I will do that and more to protect her until something changes around here.
Dear daughter, please don't go to gay clubs. Or straight ones. Stay home, little girl, and lock the doors. Come sit by me and I'll tell you stories of long ago, when it was safe to be out in public.
I think all of you good people out there should do the same. See you online.
I think we all know what the real message is here. You shouldn't be going to gay nightclubs.
They are teeming with drunk, sex-craved twenty-somethings who listen to loud music and love to party all night long.
Wait. Hold on. Aren't all nightclubs like that? If you really want to stay safe, you shouldn't be going to any nightclubs.
Or movie theaters, for that matter.
Movie theatres, where the floors are sticky, it's pitch black, and who knows what kind of monster might be sitting in that back row!
So it also came as no surprise that on July 20, 2012, James Holmes, wearing a costume and carrying a 12 gauge shotgun, semi-automatic rifle, and a handgun, murdered 20 people at close range and wounded 70 others. The movie theatre industry was already on its last legs, and this act really closed the curtain. I haven't gone since, and don't plan to be going any time in the near future.
Churches are definitely out, too. So not safe! Remember when 21 year old Dylann Roof killed 9 people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina?
People go to church to be close to God, but not that close. People go to church to pray, not to pray for their lives. No thank you.
And don't even think of sending your kids to school. As of October 2015, there were at least 188 school shootings since 2013, which is an average of nearly one a week.
In the first 6 months of 2016, there have been at least 8 school shootings so far.
In fact, there was a fatal shooting outside a school in Chicago just now, while I was writing this post.
Which means the odds of your child being shot to death in a place of learning are pretty freakin' good.
None of these shootings carries much shock value anymore, each one is just the latest in a constant stream of bloodshed flowing out of our daily news and into our lives, again and again and again and again.
So if you want your offspring to survive, don't send them to university, don't send them to high school. Are you kidding? Not even kindergarten!!
No, not even kindergarten.
The Sandy Hook Elementary shooting did actually come as a surprise to me, just from the sheer horror of it. You'd think the one place that might have been spared of mass murder is elementary school. It is the place where we send our youngest members of society, our babies, to grow and develop into loving responsible human beings.
When Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary and shot 20 small children that day, he stole more than those 27 lives and the lives of their families and loved ones. He stole a little innocence from all of us.
So yeah, add kindergarten to the list. Looks like my little one won't be going to school. Ever.
When tragedies like these occur, whether in schools, or theaters, or gay nightclubs, we all become a little more scared and a little more numb. We start avoiding places and staying home with only our closest family members and our devices. Our phones and computers and televisions will be our only link to the big, bad, outside world, which is not as frightening when viewed through a screen.
You may hear our leaders or our elders telling us not to be afraid, to carry on, or to continue shopping, as Bush suggested after 911. People will tell me that I "just gotta live my life" and hope nothing bad happens. Well, that's not enough for me anymore.
I am nostalgic for my childhood, where we didn't even lock our doors when we went out. Now, I barely even leave the house, and when I am home, you can be sure my doors are locked. I grew up in a world where going out was our only way to socialize. Oh! How fun it was to be out at a club dancing the night away, or watching the latest blockbuster on the big screen with your whole family. Well, those days are long gone.
When I became a mom, my social life came to a complete stop. I was nesting with my baby and husband, and it was a welcomed end to going out to clubs, movie theaters, and other social gatherings. With reports of shootings coming in all the time and from everywhere, its was an easy choice to make. If fear is the intended result of these terrorists, then they've completed their mission. I am afraid. I don't want to leave my comfort zone. I won't put my child in harm's way.
I am not a fearful person, but I'm not stupid either. Our society has degenerated to the point where madness roams free in the streets. People are over-medicated and under-stimulated and it's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Social services are lacking, and the institutions that do exist, like hospitals, prisons and schools, only seem to exacerbate the problem, churning out more violence and hatred with every passing day. Terrorism. Bullies. Prescription Drugs. Guns.
I don't know why mass shootings are growing more frequent and more deadly year after year. All I do know is that there's something fundamentally wrong with this country, and nothing is being done to fix it, or even address the reality of what's happening here. Our nation has become a terrifying place to live, and no one has any answers.
So for me, the only obvious solution I can think of is to stay home with my doors locked and my phone on. My daughter's future looks lonely, but safe. I will try my best to homeschool her, entertain her at home, and avoid public events. I will do that and more to protect her until something changes around here.
Dear daughter, please don't go to gay clubs. Or straight ones. Stay home, little girl, and lock the doors. Come sit by me and I'll tell you stories of long ago, when it was safe to be out in public.
I think all of you good people out there should do the same. See you online.
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